Education Hero, United States Campaign for a New American Century 1998 Utah National Guard, Minuteman Award 1997 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 1996 Outstanding Young Alumni, University of Utah, Graduate School of Social Work 1992 State of Utah, “Reed Smoot Educator of the Year” 1991

Dr. Gregory A. Hudnall is a former high school principal, student service director and associate superintendent with the Provo City School District. He has been involved with suicide prevention for the past twenty years and has personally been involved with over fifty suicides as a first responder or consultant.

Dr. Hudnall has years of personal experience in working with suicide prevention. He has spent the last fifteen years as the executive director of a community a state wide crisis team responding to suicides. He is in his 18th year as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Suicide Prevention Conference where over 450 educators and mental health experts come together to learn how best to prevent suicide.

Dr. Hudnall was invited to testify before the United States Surgeon General on suicide in Utah and in 2013 was invited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to present in Washington D.C. on the Circles4HOPE community mental health model.

Dr. Hudnall has trained over 50,000 adults and students in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention in the United States, Canada and Spain. He has presented at over 100 national and state conferences on suicide, bullying, connectedness, community collaboration and making schools a safe place for students.